“Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)
“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
On Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800Related quotes
“He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.”
Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.
Epidicus, Act I, sc. 2, line 9.
Epidicus
Context: The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Universal Passion; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor
The Sailor’s Consolation. A song with this title, beginning, "One night came on a hurricane", was written by William Pitt, of Malta, who died in 1840.
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Decisions Determine Destiny, fireside address http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=10726| delivered on 6 November 2005.
